Oooooh….PRETTY!
I was, uh…very concerned…yesterday when I noticed that when I used the restroom, my “by-products” looked like they had been manufactured by the Emerald City and the Great and Powerful Oz Himself. Yes, that is, they were BRIGHT green. Thoughts of things like a gall bladder gone wild (not quite like a Girls Gone Wild, is it?) and/or thoughts about exactly how much green, leafy stuff I had consumed over the past couple days (ok, so a couple of salads, but…geez!) filled my head.
I was scared. You would be, too, if it looked like you had shat liquid crayon into the porcelain receptacle.
However, thanks to the great and wonderful Internet, a search on Google revealed this page that explains that FDA Blue #5 turns feces bright green due to the metabolism of the dye. Well, as it turns out, two days ago I ate a bowl and a half of Bubblegum Scream ice cream, a bright blue and purple ice cream made to look like Sully’s fur in Monsters, Inc. Well, it contains copious amounts of FDA Blue #5, so….:) Now you know.
